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The Fifty-Second

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I can't comprehend how there are people who just do not check the comms of the games they are in.

How do these people function? At all? I swear if I were a mod and someone cried about missing stuff because they "do not ever read the ooc comm ever", they would be out on their ass.

ever?

ever ever

ever ever is dumb, but sometimes isn't dumb

This. So much this. We have quite a few like that. Despite writing up weekly summaries of all in-game action, tagging plot posts as plot and providing extra OOC com posts with meta information, these idiots still come stomping back and demanding mods recap everything that's happened since they've been gone/not paying attention. Then they whine if asked to check out those resources first.

Maddening.

We just had this happen recently. A sort of, "hey, I've been gone, I'm going to need everybody to tell me what I missed!"

And when people were like, "well...if you don't want to read every post, you could check the tags for the ones you're interested in. The plotty ones are even tagged with "plot"! Oh, and we do this roundup thing where a brief description of all the posts is and then links to them...."

And there's, "oh yeah, I saw that but I didn't actually read it."

And then I wanted to kick something because why go through all the effort to make these things for players to use if they don't fricking use them? I know I have other things I could be doing with my time and I figure my fellow mods do too.

i hate it even more when fellow players enable this behavior and go do all the work of reading and summarizing and linking to what's been going on for them

same applies to people who need to have their hands held every time activity check comes around and have to be told if they're on the warning list since heaven forbid they take some responsibility for their own playing and go and see for themselves

i don't mind it if the player's been on hiatus or has been unexpectedly busy or something, but if someone consistently wants to be spoonfed everything, they shouldn't be in a game

a while ago i pretended to not notice ac because i wanted to idle out of my game

you and the other idle-anon upthread can fuck off

make me, bitch

did you get anyone trying to 'help' you remember to do it, anon?

yep, but it was right at the last possible minute and i wouldn't have seen it in time anyway

I'd support mods coming up with a way to boot these people. I've seen people who don't even read the IC comms/reading list and will admit to this and they only tag what people link them on plurk.

No wonder nearly every game has some clique these days. These people need to be booted from the game until they learn to fucking read the stuff in the game for themselves.

This is one reason I really like the AC system a few games have, where they reward people for tagging around to different characters. It actually makes it less attractive to huddle in a cast herd and only tag what you're linked to.

What games are these? I want to see if I'd be interested in them.

The only one I know of is The Games and our AC is every few months. It's a really different system and it's innovative and cool.

Asgard has a power level up system that includes tagging. It also makes sense ICly, since you're supossed to make the world better with the power of friendship! (ok it sounds better in game but that's the gist of it)

there was someone in a friend's plurk who admits to never looking at the ooc comm, which is why they wind up on the ac dangerlist every month.

i dont read the ooc comm itself because the mod plurks all the important posts anyways

everything else is generic intro/drop posts and if its someone i cared about i would know about it even without reading the comm.

tbh i like being an asshole and go through this everytime i see a 'did i miss anything?' plurk

me: yeah you sure did! a lot of exciting super important things and announcements happened while you were gone.
lazy bumfuck: oooooo can you link them to me?
me: here you go! /links to ooc comm and network comm and log comm

it kills the plurk so fast im proud.

wow rude

I like you.

You're my new hero. I'll have to remember that one.

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